Kristina Olsen with Peter Grayling at the Gaelic Glub – Only Sydney Show!

KRISTINA OLSEN (USA) Dynamic Folk/Blues Singer/Songwriter! With Peter Grayling (Cello) Only Sydney Show!
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Kristina Olsen is one of the most entertaining, engaging, and compelling performers on the international folk circuit. A superb multi-instrumentalist, on acoustic guitar, steel-body slide guitar, saxophone, concertina, mandolin and piano, as well as an award-winning songwriter with a big bluesy voice, Kristina has audiences around the world coming back for more. She is renowned for her mix of powerful songs from bottleneck blues, swing and jazz to lilting folk ballads, and her hilarious, often bawdy, storytelling.
She toured here regularly between 1994 and 2017, but has spent the last seven years largely focused on studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where she obtained a BA with a double major in Orchestration/Arranging and Guitar. She is excited to be returning to Australia this March for a tour that includes gigs in NSW, Victoria, the ACT, South Australia and Western Australia.
This show is one of the few shows on her tour where she will be accompanied by highly talented West Australian cellist, Peter Grayling, renowned for bending classical technique to his own ends, plucking and bowing a solid driving bottom line and then taking soaring solos to unexpected places.
Such respected artists as Eric Bibb, Fairport Convention, Maddy Prior, and Mary Coughlan have covered and recorded Kristina’s songs. She has also worked as a session musician on numerous artists’ albums, including playing the hammered dulcimer on Michelle Shocked’s album, ‘Short Sharp Shocked’, and toured here as Mary Coughlan’s guitarist in 2005.
http://www.kristinaolsen.net/
Videos:
The Big O (with Peter Grayling): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HslwolCCD1Q
If I Stayed (with Eric Bibb): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH69Q74b0EU
Good in Bed(with Peter Grayling): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwaP4uSVKRo&t=75s